...AND THEN THERE WERE THREE...

FIVE STARS! This is the last "progressive" Genesis album, and it's one of their best! (although it's very dark...but CAS is darker) YES! It'slike their prevous albums, listen to "Burning Rope" or "Deep In The Motherlode" and you'll know what I mean..... ATTWT is one of my favourite Genesis albums! "Down & Out" is the first track, very unusual for Genesis (weird effects), but good. Next is "Undertow". The lost intro from this track can be found on BANKS' solo album A Curious Feeling (called "From The Undertow", because it's FROM THE "UNDERTOW"...) It sounds a bit like Heathaze on Duke, but above all it reminds me of the previous W&W. "Undertow" would also have sounded good as a closer (instead of "Follow You, Follow Me"). "Ballad Of Big" has a good intro. Then it fades into a silly story about Big Jim, a cowboy or something like that, but the chorus ("Must be mad!") is very good. Because of the lyrics it's one of the few low-points on the album. "Snowbound" is beautiful. Wonderful chorus. The first half of the album is the best. "Burning Rope" is the only "long" epic song on this album (at 7:05), which also contains a strong instrumental section. One of the best songs on this album! "Deep In The Motherlode" sounds a bit like the chorus in "Dancing With The Moonlit Knight", a western-like story (like "Ballad Of Big", but not such crappy lyrics), with a great musical arrangement. "Many Too Many" is average, not the best song on this album, but not a low-point. "Scenes From A Night's Dream" (about the dreams of Little Nemo) is good again, and I also like "Say It's Alright Joe", a melancholic, quiet song, and "The Lady Lies", which sounds like a closer, but the closer is the best-known song on ATTWT, "Follow You Follow Me", the first pure Collins ballad on a Genesis album, but if you compare it to later songs like "I Can't dance", "No Reply At All", "Illegal Alien" or "Who Dunnit?", it's not really bad. (Although it's not the best closer for this album, any other of the songs would work better....) But it's still Genesis, also without Hackett, but we all know that 3 years later the Genesis we all like died with ABACAB, the first Genesis album where only pop songs appeared.....

Farewell, Genesis!